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floralkittygambler · 4 years ago

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RadioDust is the Healthiest Toxic Ship for Angel so far

@honesthazbinarchives Briefly. I’d like to go into this more in the future BUT these are the main points I said I’d do. Heh ‘stay tuned’ for why HuskerDust is toxic [haaaa funny fuckin reference n shit like Viv herself aint overdone it]. Yer dont even wanna know the lack of enthusiasm in tryna do a playful ‘cringetopia’ joke - wasnt as fun as anticipated. Anyfuckinways, the shit. Before we begin, disclaimers n whatnot, no hate intended, dni if you’re a bit of a knobhead [either stan or extreme anti], an all that nonsense. I dont own the characters no shit. In this I’ll discuss how RadioDust aka SpiDEER (thats right, yer stuck w my shit humour now) is both the healthiest ship for Angel we’ve seen so far but still rather toxic. Idc if you hate me for it but dont fuckin waste yer time telling me. Great. I dont care. Yer fuckin hard n whatnot for harassin strangers online. Big dick energy to you. This will be slightly messy, my apologies, it’s a quick summary of many points.

Alright. Firstly, out of the entire male cast Angel interacts with over all platforms, Al is given a fair bit of mercy in terms of sexual advances. In fact, a swift ‘no’ and Angel doesn’t do it again - unlike most of the other cast [pent’s is covert, husks is overt]. One thing I like is that Angel himself admits to their chemistry (claiming that whilst he thinks Al’s a prick, he thinks Al dislikes him which saddens him as he’d at least like to be friends as he feels they have good chemistry - according to the VA via Hunicast’s 1yr anniversary), there’s no further efforts to jump on his dick but a clear curiosity/interest in what Al can do. Lets go to the basics, both are of similar age [allegedly in their 30s, though Ive heard Al may be up to mid 40s] as well as created near the same-ISH time (as in, Viv’s oldest characters, at least for HH). Likewise, Viv admitted to knowing fuck all on either of their eras (and to make that public wasn’t really a wise choice BUUUT if you felt the need, it’s better worded with interest “Right now I’m working towards educating myself more on their time periods to improve their portrayals” <-- crucial if yer want that ‘realism’). Because of their real-world ages, Viv confesses they’re her favourites (even if you didnt know, she makes it pretty clear). It could be a nice ‘homage’ to their impact in her life but not too relevant otherwise. It could fulfil the need for self indulgence that she’s unhealthily leaking into the canon - which will ultimately make the series shit. No sugarcoating there. As for their ages, a relationship can work whether the gap is large or small HOWEVER there are many ethics and conflicts to each. And being an adult into kids is always fucked up. With that being said, studies have shown that closer ages often work better due to the often similarities in mindset, maturity and life goals (older folks are more likely to want to settle, younger often have more ambitions), likewise there tends to be an unbalanced power-dynamic if the ages are too far, which can lead to various types of abuse. Dont get me wrong, being with someone much older (AS LONG AS NONE OF YALL ARE KIDS) very much CAN work - but rarely. There’s much more hardwork needed as well as being in the right mindset for both, otherwise it’s bad. More on that in HD. Long story short, both are closer in age meaning both are more ‘relatable’ to one another. There’s common grounds, even in the eras there’s some higher understanding of one another. Notice how Vaggie and Charlie are similar in age? (Even though Charlie is far older, her appearance and mentality for her race is on par with Vaggie��s, making it far more likely to work out positively) One of the most prominent out of all of this however is their actual interests. So listing; Both like action/chaos/having fun (often at the expense of others), both love cooking and can be food snobs in their own right, both have sadistic AND masochistic tendencies, Al likes performance and theatre whilst Angel loves *to* perform, on that last point Angel was very intrigued and enjoyed Al’s song number/performance naturally, both really enjoy pranks and both enjoy liquor (neither show an actual addiction, but rather an interest in social drinking - no dependencies on it). Again, close eras mean both have a higher probability of understanding the other and their lifestyles better. Both are high on appearance and love themselves, implying self confident mindset (healthy BUT the narcissism isnt) yet enough consideration for how they are viewed. On the parent system, one adores his mama whilst the other hates his pops. Now Ive gone on about how they’re similar. But similarities ALONE is not enough. If it was, then fandom’s would be a lil more harmonious~ A HEALTHY relationship needs compatibility, POSITIVE conversation flow, common grounds, trust, openness and understanding. Even then, some people click and some just dont. It’s like how you can just hate someone for no reason. It just IS. Common grounds and similarity is scientifically proven to be attractive to someone - be it good or BAD. People are drawn to those like their parents in some way usually, likewise we look for people similar to ourselves (from our interests, to humour, beliefs, goals, etc). Science itself states that ‘opposites attract’ solemnly applies in the real world successfully. Though similiarity plays a large role, there has to be some differences too - that person is STILL an individual separate to yourself. Too similar and it’s boring. Too similar and you’ll do everything together without some ‘you’ time. Both Vaggie and Charlie have similar interests/hobbies in dance and music, yet still have enough differences to be identifiable when together. Vaggie is more grounded than Charlie. Charlie gives some optimism and fun to Vaggie. Remember, a partner does NOT complete you - that’s a toxic mindset when taken too seriously, You complete YOURSELF. Whether you have someone or not, you must feel complete in yourself as to not slip into toxic dependency on a lover - to become them, a shadow of them or feel like you’ve lost your identity without them. Sounds harsh but it’s true. Chaggie compliments each other without a dependency. You stand alone yet uplift one another. You don’t always agree but in the end you always have each other’s backs. Love is often butchered in a toxic light in the media. So taking that into consideration, how does spideer work? Well, here’s some examples of good, bad and neutral: - Angel loves animals, Al fears/dislikes dogs. Perhaps Angel could assist him in overcoming this? - Al hates being touched, Angel dislikes being squeezed. Maybe this could help them reach an understanding... Or cause a rift? - Angel was the only one to break Al’s composure, either Angel is the *key* to delving further into Al’s more raw self... Or just another obVOXious pest? (yeah, I said it-) - Neither respect other’s boundaries, meaning both may fuel the other to be overly disrespectful in this area. Not good. - Angel is a sarky/sarcastic fuck, Al loves dry humour. Both seek amusement and chaos. In relationships one needs to see how conversation flows and in the hunicasts, both keep up some good as well as toxic banter. Both could roast the fuck out of an opponent however. - Al is acro/ace, Angel is hypersexual (appears like a sex addict - now I say this as his book has a crossed out ‘fun stuff’ with ‘work shit’ written on it. He’s always fixed on sex from his job to his humour), this could either aid Angel ease up on the sex stuff OR make him overly push it onto Al causing major rifts and discomfort (aces can have sex, ref to ace posts that real asexuals put to understand more but no one wants to be forced into sex is the point here). And we’ve already discussed their lack of respect for boundaries. The positive is that maybe this will make Angel understand how Val is rubbing off on his own behaviour towards men [again, more on that in the HD post]. - Both similar yet different in a way that does suit their compatibility chances but that doesnt mean they will click, it just improves the odds. - Both have similar enemies in Val and Vox, they’re on common terms. Likewise, Al is against the ‘sexual deviance’ of hell meaning he may be oddly supportive and protective of Angel in terms of Val. I dont even think his sadism will override this either. - Al dislikes modern tech, Angel seems to use it as his job requires it. A nice little menial difference. - Only ONE is an addict. Take it from an expert, you NEVER put two addicts together. They’re very vulnerable and prone to slipping deeper into their addictions as well as depending on each other too much that they essentially become very clingy, suffocating and toxic to each other. Seen it in action, it’s ugly. - Both could have a lot of fun and calm moments with each other. - He isn’t immediately smitten with Al but immediately shows a natural interest in Al’s powers and performance, embracing it openly. Leads for a good friendship turned lovers plot. - In Viv’s patreon, she confirmed Angel loves confident guys [sounds exactly like Al] We need to think about where both are mentally. What benefits would a relationship give both? How would they be good and bad for each other? For Al, aside from his outdated views and being a fucking murderer and narcissist, he actually seems in a good mindspace for a relationship IF he opted to be in one. Angel however has a very immature mindset, likewise is in a phase of life where hes bed hopping. IF he were to be in a relationship, I’d say he needs a male equivalent of Cherri - someone with a similar mindset yet some differences, willing to have fun and in touch with their younger side, down to cuddle, open to share and receive love as well as not afraid to publicly be affectionate with him, someone who sees him as more than just for sex, someone fun, someone who’ll let him embrace his cutesy side publicly without shame - Cherri is younger so maybe someone who’s his age or slightly younger perhaps? I think Angel’s not retirement home ready to settle and needs someone on his level that can cuddle and chill as well as feels free and youthful enough to go wild with him. In one sense, he’s got a teen girl sorta mindset (dont put him with a teen though, it’s fuckin weird-). He needs someone positive and raw, someone to let him be himself as well as someone comfortable to be themselves around him. He has a habit of latching onto unobtainable men (in psychology, this is self sabotaging subconsciously): Travis the client, Val a pimp, Husk (emotionally unavailable and needs HEAVY self work - interestingly far more than Angel - plus he’s still onto his last relationship and an addict to gambling and alcohol), Pent who’s the enemy he was currently fighting (inappropriate timing), Alastor who’s not interested in another but his own needs [selfish, VERY bad for a relationship]. Subconsciously he’s self sabotaging on purpose. There’s many psychology books as well as sources online for this, if you’re interested. Either way, Angel is drawn to men either like his father [who dislike him, shun him, or are otherwise cold, abusive or just blatantly dislike or otherwise dont care about him] or anyone with money to fuel his drug addiction/’debt’ to Val. Going with any of these men isn’t a good idea. Preferably, Angel needs someone who he doesnt immediately crush and obsess over. Someone who he doesnt sexually harass or assault. Someone he can build a connection with quickly that can bud into romance (think how Chaggie started as a friendship which clicked immediately). Maybe even someone he doesn’t expect to fall for but does so anyways. It would be more realistic as Viv wants as well as more healthy. That for once he isnt sex or money craved instantly, thus doesnt sexually harass/assault and is given a proper chance to develop and grow a friendship and love. Someone who isnt an addict. Someone with an on-par mindset where they click. Someone open to love. For any chance of a good relationship, Angel needs to be with anyone BUT who we’ve already seen. There’s too much toxicity that’ll be swept under the rug and justified otherwise. Too much shit to fuel homophobes in terms of gay stereotypes. Even though Ive focused a fair bit on Angel, it’s NOT just about Angel. That’s something fans forget. Some he depends on or someone who depends on him in the long term wont last and will be very dangerous to both. Just because you suffer, you dont then deserve to be rewarded with ‘something nice’. You dont get to have everything youve ever wanted. Giving him any of these blokes [minus Val] gives him a pass. Gives him what he wants. I get Viv loves him but life doesnt work that way. True lasting growth comes from learning that. Acceptance and growth. You dont get everything you want and sometimes thats a GOOD thing. He’s not a spoilt kid who gets everything he asks for, he’s YOUR creation. If you really wanted what your creations deserve then you need to research and be realistic with it. Because hes starting to feel like a shitty Gary-Stu at this rate. I live with an ‘Angel Dust’ like person. It used to feel like life gave her everything and most times it did. Everyone loved her and she could get away with murder if she wanted to. But now she’s had to struggle and grow, let go of some ‘wants’ because they werent good for her and she’s becoming better for it. She has a long way but she’s more humble for it now [still got self confidence but it’s less narcissism now, which is more healthy for her]. Also, they make the word anal lol

#stans and antis dni #pros and cons to radiodust #spideer #anti hazbin #viv needs to actually research #vivs been in toxic relationships so she should know better and how these come across #wait until anti huskerdust #ill really be fuckin loathed then #anyways #enjoy?

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martinmcg · 3 years ago

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PALACES OF FORCE

Our journey to Paris and the Exposition Universelle de 1889 did not begin auspiciously. The trip required us to catch a train from Victoria Station, which is a terrible place. From Victoria Street the station appears to be nothing more than a shabby wooden shed, held together only by the many layers of paint that have been plastered on it over the years. The station’s exterior, however, offers barely a hint of the horrors within. The inadequate walls conceal the most chaotic, the most crowded and, assuredly, the dirtiest place I have ever seen.

And I am from Calcutta.

Everything was stained black by the smoke and clouded by billowing steam. I felt certain that, if I could but find a moment’s pause to contemplate it, I should be able to feel the station’s grime smearing itself across my face.

But there was no pause. The crowd heaved back and forth between the great hissing beasts of the engines. Men pushed and grunted, women screeched and shoved, and the children scuttled like rats and bellowed like savages. In terms of both volume and shrillness the noise of the crowd was almost a match for the whistling, rumbling, rattling, and hissing of the great steam engines that loomed over us all.

Though I have lived here now for somewhat more than sixty years, I still find it impossible to reconcile England’s conception of itself as the world’s most civilised nation with the wolfish mob its people become when gathered together. It is as though the English, by constant repetition of their claim to an excess of refinement, hope that it will become reality. It is plainly a deception, though perhaps not without a certain admirable intent.

My companion and I struggled through the noise and press of the station to our appointed platform and the night train to Paris. The distinctive yellow-ochre of the Brighton and South Coast Line trains took on a sickly pallor in the dim light and smoke-laden air. A discreet display of coin caught the attention of a somewhat reluctant porter, and we made our way along the platform.

My companion, Mohandas, was a quiet man, shy and softly spoken even in his native Gujarati and more so when required to converse in English, though he was quite fluent. You will have heard of him of course, as he is now more than famous. Then, however, he was simply a student hoping to be called to the bar. Like many of the Indians who came to England to study at that time he affected to become, in appearance and behaviour, a more precise instance of the idealised English gentleman than any I have ever encountered amongst the native population. However, unlike the majority – including, I freely confess, myself – Mohandas maintained the proprieties of diet and religious observance. This religious bent and his somewhat serious manner had led some of our fellows to abandon him as a prig and a bore. I fear he pricked their consciences. For myself, having no conscience, I found him honest and intelligent, and we became regular companions.

He dressed in the most proper fashion, taking the utmost care with his appearance. Those who know him only from the newsreels may imagine that Mohandas only ever dressed in the simplest of clothing, but when I think of our youthful days together in London, I see him in the clothes he wore that day: a chimney-pot hat and suit bought in Bond Street, with a gold watch chain across his chest.

Assisted by the porter, we installed ourselves in a compartment in the first class carriage and settled down. We had, thanks to my habitual punctuality, arrived a little early and our train was quite empty so we were able to pick our compartment and arrange ourselves before the majority of passengers arrived. As the time of our departure neared, the train became quite full, crowded even, and I waited with interest to see who would share our compartment. I watched as several of our fellow travellers peered through the glass of the door, then turned away with expressions of distaste.

I dismissed it with a shrug, and if Mohandas noticed he gave no sign. As has always been his way, he spent any spare moment reading voraciously. He had galloped through the Daily News, The Daily Telegraph and The Pall Mall Gazette, and was absorbing The Times when there was a roar from the guard on the platform and a blast from the engine’s whistle, and the train juddered forward. We were leaving at last. I stared out the window, watching the dark and crowded platforms slip away. And then we were out of the station and, for a moment, I was blinded by the early evening sun.

I blinked several times, and when I recovered the most handsome man I have ever seen was standing in the doorway to our compartment.

He was several inches taller than my own six feet, with beautiful deep-set blue eyes. Though he was obviously Caucasian, his skin was almost as deeply coloured as my own. His hair was black and, growing slightly longer than might everywhere be consider proper, it tangled into curls. His full beard was lightened by a faint, reddish touch. He was tall, but even through his fashionable pinstripe suit I determined a slender boyishness about his body.

I nodded and the stranger smiled. There was a shyness about his demeanour that only enhanced his physical beauty. He sat next to me, facing Mohandas.

“It seems you have offended some of your fellow travellers,” the man said.

Mohandas looked up sharply.

“But we spoke to no one,” I said.

“Some people need only the slightest of excuses to become offended,” he said. His accent was marked and I assumed he was Scottish, though I would later learn he had been born in Ireland.

“Such as?” It was Mohandas who had spoken. I was quite surprised for it was usual for him to require a lengthy courtship with a new acquaintance before overcoming his natural reserve to address them directly.

“Oh, the usual. The cut of your suit, the style of your shoes…” he paused, and looked around as though searching the cabin for examples of things that might offend a polite sensibility, then he smiled. “The colour of your skin?”

I grunted a laugh and even Mohandas grinned.

“Casement,” the young man thrust out an open hand and I shook it vigorously. “Roger Casement. Very pleased to make your acquaintance.”

“Sanjit Kamath,” I introduced myself. “And this is my friend and colleague, Mohandas Ghandi.”

“I believe I have heard of you, Mister Casement,” Mohandas said as they shook hands.

The young man cocked his head to one side.

“Really?”

“You have been in Africa? One of Stanley’s men, in The Congo Free State?”

“I was, but how could you know?”

“Your friend, Henry Ward, has spoken most highly of you, at our meetings.” Mohandas pulled out a pamphlet on vegetarianism and I barely suppressed a groan.

“You know Henry?”

“I have attended meetings of the Vegetarian Society with him.” He waved the pamphlet at young Casement; Henry Ward’s name was on the front. “Hearing your name, I could not fail to know you by his description.”

Casement leant back in his seat, stretching his long legs. He seemed, suddenly, entirely at ease. “Well, if you’re friends with Henry, then I am sure this trip will be most pleasurable.”

Our eyes met for a moment and a smile curled my lips.

“Most pleasurable,” I said.

I have forgotten much of the conversation that passed between the three of us on that journey to Paris, but I do remember that we talked about Livingstone and the Congo, and about the prospects for establishing a genuine commonwealth in Africa that might serve as a beacon for the whole continent and perhaps the world. Casement was passionate and sincere in a way that only young men who have found a true cause can be. I found him immensely likable and attractive, and we chatted endlessly.

Mohandas spoke rarely, but one of his interventions sticks clearly in my mind, for it was my first insight into the political ideas that were coming to the boil inside his head.

I had asked young Casement what he hoped to achieve in Africa.

“Why, to end slavery, to ameliorate the most awful conditions that the natives must endure, and to spread enlightenment of the ways of the modern world.” Casement said. He spoke so straightforwardly and earnestly that it was impossible to doubt his sincerity and difficult to resist his beautifully simple vision.

Mohandas laid the book he was reading onto his lap.

“And what if the people there do not want your enlightenment, Mister Casement?”

Casement looked surprised. He stared at Mohandas for a moment, opened-mouthed. The idea had clearly never occurred to him.

“But you have not seen the terrible conditions in which they live,” he said. “Each new tribe we discover suffers an existence a civilised man would not wish upon a dog!”

Mohandas smoothed out his suit trousers. It was, I thought, a very lawyerly motion.

“I believe I have seen such conditions in my own homeland,” he said. “Are you to tell me that the poor natives of India or Africa are better off for the coming of the white men?”

“No,” Casement didn’t hesitate. “Not yet. But that is because they are being exploited. We, that is those of us who support the Free State, wish to liberate the Africans from such exploitation and to establish them as a modern nation amongst the peoples of the world.”

“And what if they do not wish to be modern in your ways?” Mohandas turned to look out the window as Kent, low and lush, rumbled past. “Has it occurred to you that their traditions and their way of life may be as valuable as yours?”

It clearly hadn’t, for Casement fell silent.

After a moment I changed the subject and we talked of happier subjects, perhaps of cricket – my true love – or mutual acquaintances and our plans for our time in Paris.

Later, the young Mister Casement and I spent two hours together in his cabin on the steamer that carried us across The Channel. He was a strong and fierce lover. It is my clearest and most cherished memory of our time together.

I will not dwell on the details of the 1889 Exposition, except for those that impinge most pertinently on this tale. None who were not in Paris that summer can hope to comprehend the scale and opulent magnificence of the display that girdled the Seine. And, even these many years later, those who journeyed through its many wonders will not require my aid to recall the impression that the city and the Exposition made upon everyone who took in its sights.

Suffice it to say that those who consider these things, experts who have attended similar events all across the globe, judged the Paris Exhibition of 1889 to be the most extraordinary and comprehensive gathering of mankind’s many achievements in the fields of art and science. Subsequent years may have witnessed mankind’s increasing ingenuity and the blossoming fruits of many great minds, but there are still those who insist that the Paris Exposition has never been surpassed or even matched. All man’s greatest achievements to that point were on display on the Champ de Mars that summer and the path that would lead us into the next century was set out for all to follow.

The once-controversial symbol of the exhibition, Mister Eiffel’s great tower, remains in place – now synonymous with France herself – but the Exposition left a more subtle mark in the souls of the many millions of visitors lucky enough to have explored its wonders.

The planet span serenely at our feet. First, one noticed the vast white ice cap of the Arctic, then, as we circled slowly around and down past the equator, the great expanses of Asia were gradually dwarfed by the ungraspable hugeness of the Earth’s oceans, until at last the Southern ice cap was above our heads, and we had passed below the planet.

It was a most disconcerting experience.

The globe, as high as a three-storey house, dominated the huge room, and a single walkway spiralled around it as the planet itself rotated. By some fluke we had entered the room when it was otherwise empty, and in the church-like silence I found myself deeply moved by this vision of our planet.

The sense that the globe represented something fundamental was profound. The immensity of the world on which we live, and our own smallness within it, was made plain. Its scale – one millionth of the planet’s actual scope – staggered the mind. Only when faced with such a sight, the vast globe encompassed in a glance, can one comprehend how insignificant is humanity. But, more surprisingly, I was at the same moment struck by the fragility of the planet, a tiny haven of life in an unimaginably larger universe. We were insignificant specks on the face of a planet that, itself, seemed suddenly no more than a full stop in a lost volume on a forgotten shelf in some great library.

The great mountain ranges appeared as but wrinkles on an aged face. The greatest rivers seemed to be no more than trickles into oceans that were themselves made simple pools that a child might splash through. The portion of our planet that is habitable, squeezed between expanses of ocean and ice, driest desert and sterile mountains, seemed reduced to so small a sliver that the distances that divide race from race seemed meaningless.

I dare say that no man capable of reason could have gazed upon that globe and not been moved by the essential unity of humankind.

Casement was stroking his beard, looking up at the planet, his eyes followed southernmost tip of South America as it passed across his field of vision. Mohandas had paused further up the walkway. I can still see him, in my mind’s eye, standing just below equator, one hand slightly out-stretched as though he would scoop up the waters of the Pacific Ocean

In that moment the only sound was the gentle rumble of the machinery that drove the great globe.

Then the door above us opened and a group of giggling girls entered the chamber. The spell was broken.

“Shall we move on?” I said.

Our next steps took us into the future. From the chamber containing the globe we crossed to the Galerie des Machines.

This hall, dubbed the “Palace of Force” by one Parisian commentator, was itself a symbol of man’s power over nature. One knew, logically, that innumerable tonnes of iron anchored the great vaulted roof that arced high above us, but under acres of glass and in the summer afternoon’s sunlight that flooded everywhere, that mass of metal seemed to become attenuated. It was possible to imagine that the whole building could simply waft into the Parisian sky. We descended a wide staircase to a viewing platform dominated by a tall, skeletal clock tower. We paused there; we had entered through the western end of the Gallerie and stretching away below us was the first of two great wings that met beneath a glass dome that was larger, lighter, and more impressive than anything in Europe’s ancient cathedrals. My own reaction was reflected in the gasps and exclamations of my fellow visitors. The torrent of people divided on the platform and swept downwards to the Gallerie’s floor via two sweeping staircases.

There was a moment’s respite then, as one recovered from the shock of this extraordinary building. We regrouped, sharing glances that, at least on the part of Casement and myself, revealed that we were almost awe-struck. That this temple of light and iron had made an impression on Mohandas was obvious, though whether it was favourable was not at all certain.

No sooner had we become accustomed to the magnificence of the great exhibition space than we began to become aware of the wonders it contained.

Looming over the entrance stood the engine of an ocean liner – a cathedral of steel and brass, dwarfing all who entered and impressing on everyone the power now in the hands of man. Elsewhere hundreds of smaller engines wheezed, slapped, and banged, illustrating the many tasks man’s ingenuity had found for them.

For myself and Casement the Hall of Machines was a delight. We jigged from stand to stand, gasping at each toy or gadget, thrilled by the endless possibilities that opened up with each new discovery. Everywhere electric lamps flickered even in the sunshine, and the exhibition was filled with swarms of photographers who went about their task with a fervour, recording every miniscule detail. Moving pictures flickered in darkened booths. Recorded music blared from Berliner gramophones. Daimler motorcars trundled amongst the wide aisles between walls of machinery. Everything that we later took for granted – the whole future – was here.

In the centre of the hall, beneath the vast dome, two balloons were suspended. The smaller example was a model of the gaudy device that had first born the Mongolfier brothers aloft just a century before. Dwarfing that, however, as Jupiter does its many moons, was its modern equivalent – a great crimson orb below which was suspended a wicker basket.

We paused beneath it. Casement smiled to himself then signalled to the balloon’s attendant.

“What are you doing?” I asked, but he ignored me and took the attendant to one side and began a whispered discussion that commenced with a regretful but firm shaking of the attendant’s head and concluded with a handshake and a discreet exchange of francs.

“Come along.” Casement held aside a thick red rope and waved us towards the balloon’s basket.

Mohandas stopped and looked toward the attendant who bowed respectfully.

“What have you done?” I asked.

“I told him Mohandas was the Rajah of Peshawar,” a huge boyish grin split Casement’s face. “And that he was interested in buying a fleet of balloons to enable exploration of the Himalayas.”

A look of outrage spread across Mohandas’s face but we rushed to his side and Casement shuffled him into the basket before he could splutter a word. I distracted the attendant with a most elaborate namaste.

Once the wicker basket was raised above the floor of the hall of machines, Mohandas’s outrage dissipated and his natural curiosity asserted itself. Casement stood alongside Mohandas, and the two of them could hardly have presented a greater contrast. Casement was tall and hale so that even standing still he seemed to vibrate with barely restrained energy. Dwarfed beside him, and fragile, Mohandas held himself so perfectly still that the world seemed to pivot about him. Even then I worried whether his slight frame could carry the burdens he took upon himself – yet he never buckled.

Casement seemed quite transported by the sights and sounds of the great machines now at man’s bidding. “Impressive, isn’t it? These engines are power incarnate. They are the way to the future.”

“Certainly,” Mohandas did not look at him. “They are the way to a future.”

Casement caught the barb; clearly he had not forgotten their brief exchange on the train. He swept his hand across the scene below them. “Do you really mean you believe that the people of Africa or India would be better off if we denied them all that this could offer?”

“What does it offer, my friend?”

“They’d have the strength to build, the ability to control their lands, the power to protect themselves against the predation of the white nations or their fellows.” Casement was counting off the obvious benefits on his fingers. “They could ensure comfort from want and safety from exploitation. And with ease from such fears comes the ability to devote time to art and science and the true fruits of civilisation.”

“These machines could do that for the poor of India and Africa?” Mohandas was smiling.

“Of course! Look around this room. Think what they have done for Britain and France.”

“So you believe that these great machines could make the poor of the rest of the world as fortunate as the poor of Limehouse or Manchester or Birmingham?” Mohandas shook his head. “How happy they will be that such luxury has only cost them their lands and their traditions.”

Whatever response Casement was planning stuck fast. He stared out across the exhibition, gathering his thoughts.

“Of course, the present organisation of our society is far from perfect,” he said.

“I hadn’t taken you for a communist.”

“I am not,” Casement visibly bristled, pulling himself to his full height. “But I will concede that there are ways industrial society could better provide for its people.”

“And who will care for the people when these great machines rust, when the land has been abandoned and the crops fail?” Mohandas’s hand chopped the air. “When these machines become scrap, Mister Casement, how will your Empire feed our people then?”

“I have said that changes are necessary,” Casement met Mohandas gaze and held it, visibly trying to restrain his anger. “But I hardly think an Irishman needs a lecture from anyone on the consequences of famine.”

There was silence then, for what seemed like a very long time. Even the sound of the machines in the exhibition hall and the thousands of people moving just a few dozens of feet below us seemed to fade away. I found myself unable, or perhaps unwilling, to intercede, for I felt certain some crucial struggle was taking place. But there was to be no victor here and, after an eternity, it seemed, the two men reached some silent accord and smiled.

The mood immediately lightened and Mohandas, looking out over the Galerie des Machines, pointed to some stall that caught his eye.

I signalled to the attendant of the balloon, who set to winching us back to earth.

“You shouldn’t have lied,” Mohandas said, nodding towards the attendant. Casement’s face was a sudden mask of utter contrition.

“I did not mean to-”

Mohandas rested a hand on his arm, leaning close, smiling.

“I have never even been to Peshawar.”

Casement’s laughter rang out across the Palace of Force.

The next day we took a journey into the past. Our trip through time took us down a boulevard illustrating the history of human habitation presented in exquisitely detailed reconstructions or large models. We began in the familiarity of the present but quickly passed a delightful hostelry of the Renaissance, the rougher dwellings of the Dark Ages, the glory of Rome and the simpler elegance of Greece, back through the cruder dwellings of the stone ages and, ultimately, to the troglodyte beginnings of mankind in caves lit by guttering flame. Nor was only European history presented, for the display featured civilisations from across the globe, from the tepees of the Red Indian and the adobe homes of the Americas before the Europeans arrived, to the homes of ancient Egyptians, Assyrians, and Phoenicians. Perhaps unsurprisingly Mohandas and I were particularly fascinated by the reconstruction of the Brihadisvara temple in Thanjavur. We were most impressed by the attention to detail in the reproduction which included the great bull and the Periya Koil.

Finally we reached the end of the boulevard and, rather tired and hot in the afternoon sun, we were drawn to the shade of what appeared to be a small copse of exotic trees from which strange music floated.

Beneath the trees we found reconstructed a village of the native people of Malay. At first glance it was little more than a scattering of bamboo shacks thatched with palm-leaves, and yet there was something in the grace of the buildings that spoke of a simple life in a bountiful land. Rather than the construction of man, the village seemed to have formed organically from the very stuff of the forest and it seemed that to live life in a place like this would be to become an organism in service of the trees.

We followed the music to an open theatre, roofed with more palm leaves but open at the side, and watched a traditional dance performed by a group of native girls. They were such slight creatures that it seemed impossible that they should dance with such grace while encumbered with head-dresses and thick bracelets, brooches, buckles, and embroidered garments. But graceful they were, and they moved with such entrancing charm that the three of us stood quite transfixed as their arms and fingers etched intricate, exotic patterns on the Parisian air and their musicians beat out rapid yet oddly plaintive rhythms.

How long we stood there I cannot tell, but when the show finished the first hint of evening could be felt on the air and the feeling of being transported to some distant shore was complete. Silently we made our way back to the huts of the village and dipped inside the first one, finding low benches set around the wall. We spoke not a word as we arranged ourselves, perhaps fearing to break the spell that the dancers had woven around us. We were entranced.

“This is how life should be,” I said eventually, stretching out in contentment.

“Exactly!” Mohandas suddenly leaned forward. “This is the life for which we are intended. This is the level at which our moral and economic life should be organised. We cannot understand the world in a city where every neighbour is a stranger – we have no feeling of kinship. But in a place like this, where everything is shared, men could see the consequences of their actions and be held responsible for them. In a place like this, justice would be a reality.”

“You’re a romantic!” Casement was laughing but not mocking.

“You think so?”

“You think this thing,” Casement took in the village with a flick of his head, “is real. It isn’t. It’s a fiction.”

“Not this place, perhaps, but places like this are real.”

“No,” Casement’s voice rose slightly. “I hadn’t seen it before but your background has made you as distant from places like this as mine.”

“You know nothing of my background.”

“I think I do. You are a child of privilege – more so even than I, I think–”

“My family were not wealthy.”

“No? But you have been privileged. You have had an education, a chance to travel, and all the while protected by your family’s position. You said your father was a politician, so you have grown up amidst the exercise of power.”

“That hardly invalidates my opinions.”

“Of course not,” Casement stood up and walked to the door of the hut, bending to look out into the village beyond. “But you know nothing of what it is to really live in places like this.”

“And you do?”

“More than you, I think.” He dipped beneath the roof of the hut and stepped out. Mohandas followed him. Reluctantly, I trailed behind – regretting what I had started. “At least I have lived amongst these people – though, I confess, always apart, always with the knowledge that I could walk away. But I saw enough to see that their life was not one of harmony with their surroundings but a struggle just to gather enough to live. One poor harvest and a generation may be lost.”

“Then we should temper our society to live by what nature can provide.”

“Why, when we have the power to set these people free from nature’s tyranny?”

“You think your work sets the poor free, but you simply bring them another form of imperialism,” Mohandas’s lawyerly training had taken control; he spoke evenly and with confidence. “The ideas of progress you force upon them are as alien and destructive as any imperial army.”

“Perhaps,” Casement conceded and, for a moment, Mohandas broke his stride – surprised. “But the ideas I bring them are no more alien than yours, and no more dangerous.”

“Dangerous? How could it be dangerous to live within one’s means?”

“How could such communities protect themselves from the true imperialists – whether amongst their neighbours or the white men?”

“But what would an imperialist want with a poor village?”

“Wealth.”

“But a place like this would have no gold, no jewels,” Mohandas smiled. “I think there would be nothing here to bring the conqueror.”

“I think you misunderstand the nature of wealth and the desire for power.” Casement did not return the friendly smile. “Riches aren’t built on gold but on people. What use is gold if you have no labour to dig it from the ground? How can palaces be constructed if you have no slaves to build them for you? And what good is wealth if there are not masses of people possessing nothing to gaze upon your fortune with envious eyes? What is power if it is not exercised in the subjugation of others to your will?”

Mohandas opened his mouth to speak, but Casement did not pause. He was striding around the little village now, hands clenched behind his back, his body tense, his jaw firmly set. His voice was loud, his accent becoming quite nasal and pronounced, and his eyes were ablaze.

“But this all starts from a false premise. Those with power would never let your dreamy villages exist, for they would bring gold and trinkets and buy your villagers first, and if that did not work they would bring rifle and horse and force their compliance. The only way that a village like this can be free is if its people are given the tools of the modern age and made as powerful as anyone who would threaten them. It is the job of those who care to construct a decent world to give them those tools.”

“No!” Mohandas’s voice was gentler than Casement’s and he habitually spoke so softly that the fact that he raised it now visibly shocked the young Irishman. “Guns are nothing without men to wield them. Gold is nothing without people willing to be bought. You underestimate the power of resistance.”

“And you underestimate the determination of the powerful to stay that way.”

There was a rustle in the trees. I looked up to see the Malayan girls whose performance we had recently watched peeking from between the leaves of the plantation’s vegetation. How long they had been there, I could not guess. From the bewildered looks on their faces, it had clearly been long enough to understand that the two smartly-dressed gentlemen before them were arguing furiously.

One of the girls noticed me and I doffed my hat to her. She giggled and nudged one of her companions who, in turn, began to laugh. My companions, however, were so entirely engrossed in their debate that they squabbled on, unaware of their audience. One of the bolder girls began to imitate Casement’s mannerisms, which set another girl to imitate Mohandas’s air-cutting hand movements.

The giggling turned into outright laughter.

At last there was a pause.

The argumentative pair turned towards me, confused. I nodded towards the trees. The Malay girls howled and suddenly the two lions of debate became blushing boys. In a moment, I was roaring more loudly than any of the dancers.

“I must go on to Brussels tomorrow,” Casement said as we paused on the Pont de l’Alma. We were alone, Mohandas having gone in search of vegetarian food, and the streets of Paris suddenly emptied. “I must see if there is work for me back in Africa.”

He placed his hands on the low balustrade and I rested my hand on top of his. He looked around furtively and then leant his shoulder against mine. We shared a smile.

Paris had pulled down the stars and draped them around herself. The banks of the Seine glowed with all the majesty of the Milky Way. The river, blacker than the night sky, ripped silently against the bridge’s buttresses and reflected a uncountable points of light in every swirl and eddy. Further down the river the city’s other bridges were ribbons of light leaping across the darkness. Boats of every shape and size, brightly lit and filling the night with laughter and the clinking of glasses, seemed to dance at the feet of the great statues that guarded our bridge.

“At least tonight will be memorable,” I said.

Casement, his eyes on the rippling river, nodded and smiled softly, but I sensed part of him was already back in Africa.

Now, almost seventy years after our trip to Paris, Casement is long gone – executed in an English jail – and my friend Mohandas is dead these ten years – assassinated by a fool. Both lived their beliefs, turning ideas into actions, and both were killed because of them.

Though the history books show that their lives followed quite separate trajectories, I have recently come to think that they led to rather similar places. Both fought for independence for countries that would ultimately be divided by religious enmity that was stronger than they could conceive. And their dreams of justice and equality have been betrayed by those who used revolutions to replace one corrupt set of rulers with another. Neither man would be content with the continuing penury and exploitation of his nation’s poor and both would, I am sure, find themselves fighting the very governments they struggled to create. In revolution or resistance, progress or simplicity, Irishman and Indian were both victorious and defeated, and they have become symbols that embarrass those who have come after them.

Today I found myself wandering with my friends through the Paris of the Exposition and that great model of the globe was spinning, once again, at our feet. Somewhere above my head a Russian device is circling the globe. I have heard its frantic, crackling warble on the wireless. I wonder if allowing all humanity to stand above the Earth and watch it turn might not have the same profound effect on all the world that it on the three of us so long ago. However we die, we live together and now we can see the world now as it truly is, just a speck. Yet even this mote – significant only to us – is so massive that it overwhelms our petty differences.

I see the great engines of the Galerie des Machines and laugh at how impressed we were by toys that have been entirely surpassed in the years that followed. I think of our journey into the past, to that most distant village, and my companions’ disagreement. I am surprised that my strongest memory is not of the words of two great men putting forward their visions for a better world but of the laughing Malay girls who mocked them before going on their own way through their ersatz forest and away into the Parisian night, quite unaware of the weight of the discussion they had witnessed.

Finally, I am back on the Pont de l’Alma and the smell of roses rolls across the water from the gardens constructed on the Trocadéro. I turn back to gaze at the Champ de Mars; Eiffel’s slender tower knifes the night sky with twinkling diamonds and the great palaces shine brightly. The South Bank is ablaze with the light of man’s greatest achievements. I reach out and, just for a moment, I seem to have gripped all time and space and that I might manipulate an awesome power to remake the world.

I could set free the engines that Casement so admired. Unleashed at last, their energies might set men free. Or I could crush them and cast us all back to innocence. Mohandas believed that those machines were as much the tools of slavery as chains and rifles.

The choice is mine. If I can make it.

I hesitate.

And then Casement is beside me, urging me onwards into the Parisian night. I follow him into the gardens on the Trocadéro and we lose ourselves again amongst tall hedges and the perfume of flowers.

“Palaces of Force” was first published in Aeon SF #8

PALACES OF FORCE was originally published on Welcome To My World

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Being Alone, Andrew Bogut, and Animals: 27233-2 years old, 48 lbs Surrendered due to NYCHA ban Beautiful, young, friendly, affectionate, smart, very obedient, well behaved when home alone, lived in total harmony with a small dog, kid friendly, housetrained (uses wee- wee pads too) td'lanhattan waitina for a famiu & (oye **** TO BE KILLED - 5/10/2018 **** LADY IS A GEM THAT WE CAN'T ALLOW TO BE OVERLOOKED :'( What do you think Lady was thinking when she walked through the doors of the NYC ACC and had to sit and take in the sights and smells of the raucous shelter as her parent talked back and forth with a stranger? Was she her usual shy self, her heart pounding as her parent stood up and headed for the door? Did she try to follow, anxious and scared, only to have the door slammed in her face? 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The wolf at the door (domestication of technology, part 1)

One of the enduring objects used to represent the technological future is the robot. This legacy means that its promise has the ability to evolve in accordance with our societal and cultural dreams and aspirations. It can reflect the current state of technological development, our hopes for that technology as well as our fears. Fundamentally though, after almost a century of media depictions and corporate promises, robots are yet to enter our homes and lives in any meaningful way. Or at least not in the way we expected.

If we’re going to talk about robots we should begin with a definition. But this is by no means an easy task. Robot does not refer to one specific object; it is not based on a singular technology, context, or function; and while certain stereotypical (e.g. anthropomorphic) robot forms pervade, other diverse and surprising configurations of technology can also be considered a robot. The robot can exist simultaneously in multiple contexts and planes of reality, and for a multitude of reasons: as a functional engineered machine operating autonomously on a production line (such as an industrial robot); as a corporate vision of the future (humanoid robot); as a complex construct of fiction (android); or as a high-street product (robotic vacuum cleaner). While the promiscuity of the generic concept often leads to a blurring of these worlds and indeed the promise of migration between them, the actual artefact is very poor at making this transition - the spectacular robots of our technological dreams are yet to make it into our everyday lives.

With such a broad range of possibilities the definition must be quite vague. But for the purposes of this discussion it could be as follows:

For a thing to be considered a ‘robot’ it should be able to sense and interpret in some fashion its environment, compute decisions based on that sensory information, and then act on those decisions in some way.

This statement is satisfying from a technical perspective, but its dryness fails to reflect the mythical or emotive factor commonly associated with robots. Therefore to the technical definition we will add:

The complexity or sublimity of either the sensing, computing or mechanics should elevate the status of the robot above that normally ascribed to machines or products.

The dream of robot servants, as with so many technological dreams, is centuries old. In the 1890s Oscar Wilde talked about the need for mechanical slaves in his manifesto for fully automated luxury socialism. At the 1939 New York World’s Fair, the Westinghouse Electric Corporation gave the dream a physical form with Electro, a giant metal walking and talking robotic man. While not the first humanoid robot, Electro was important for pushing forward the idea that robots could enter the home as domestic help.

The promise of this particular type of robot future persists to this day, exemplified by corporate robots such as Honda’s ASIMO and the vast number of similar objects emerging out of academic and corporate research. But while such robots have become commonplace in production lines, tech fairs and research laboratories, their presence is yet to be accommodated in the domestic sphere. Robots continued to hover at the threshold as unwelcome guests, our resistance to strangers seemingly too strong to overcome. Bringing a full-sized humanoid robot into the domestic sphere would be like bringing a wolf through the door. Instead, like the gradual domestication of the wolf, it is happening little by little, in gradual steps, by the process of future nudge. New types of robots are entering millions of homes with the introduction and growing ubiquity of AI-based virtual assistants. Not in our homes, obviously - we’re not called Crap Futures for nothing. But a lot of people actively welcomed these devices into their daily lives.

The key word to describe these new robots is adaptation. Embedding virtual assistants in phones and watches blurred the lines from the start. These familiar everyday objects - rather than creepy humanoid forms - acted as the Trojan horse, and succeeded in bringing robots into the domestic sphere. This had been done to some extent before: the Atari video game console mimicked domestic objects (wood-veneer inlays) and mated with the familiar and thoroughly domestic television set, smoothing its transition from the seedy arcade to the family livingroom. The anonymous black dots and cylinders that house most standalone virtual assistants are a step further along this progression. The domestic robot was decentralised and subtly dispersed around the home, across our numerous devices, as a ubiquitous service. Embodiment is no longer necessary in our post-industrial era: manual tasks are performed either by cheap human labour (a persistent feature of late-capitalist society) or bespoke machine automation, leaving domestic robots free to perform more useful mental labour (choosing dinner music or finding recipes), or to serve as conduits to the supply chain.

There are many reasons why Amazon and the other big tech companies want to have a presence in your home. The work of Paul-Olivier Dehaye and others has demonstrated the value, extent, and secrecy of data collection. Data has become the world’s most valuable resource. The new gold rush is on, and we - it is not too self-aggrandizing to say - are the gold. Advertisements for Amazon’s new Echo and Echo Plus focus specifically on children, seeking - like Facebook’s cradle-to-grave timeline - to gather data on individuals across every stage of life. ‘Kids today’, said David Limp (senior VP in charge of Echo devices), ‘will grow up never knowing a day they couldn’t talk to their houses.’ Except they’re not talking to their houses, they’re talking directly to Amazon.

It is a clever marketing trick referring to Alexa or Siri as a) part of the family or b) synonymous with the home itself. Historically, of course, slaves and live-in domestic servants were often treated this way, being ‘given’ the surnames of their owners. But they obviously fell short of being true family: they were treated not as family but as family possessions, chattels bound together with other property. These moves - naming, possessing, adopting - signal domestication, in the same way that you might consider a dog part of the family, even giving it your family surname to suggest benign ownership, but would not name the deer that wanders through your garden. Alexa and other virtual assistants are different in one important sense, which is that they maintain a primary connection to their true master, the corporation. They are not family, or even family property, but rather family spies. (This is at the heart of their designation not actually as a device but as a service controlled by the provider.)

From the business standpoint the case for wanting robots in every home is clear enough: it is the domestication of capitalism, strengthening our emotional connection to consumption and allowing it to pervade every corner of our lives. But why did we finally invite the wolf inside? The answer must be convenience; and, at last, a degree of comfortable familiarity, an overcoming of the uncanny. The mobile phone now feels to many people like a natural extension of their body and even mind. The fixed or standalone presence of an AI-based helper in the home, the modern domestic robot, is only a short step beyond Siri, if at all.

To return to the fundamental questions:

Is it good? For whom? And in whose interest?

In Part 2 we’ll continue the discussion through the analogy of animal domestication.

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Westinghouse Televox; Electro and ASIMO; Atari 2600; all via Wikimedia Commons

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metronomeihear · 7 years ago

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1. Post the rules 2. Answer the questions given to you by the tagger 3. Write 11 questions of your own 4. And tag 11 people

I was tagged by @onceabluemoonwrites

1. What is your second favourite fandom?

Umm.... I’m not certain? I don’t really rank the fandoms I’m in, so I don’t have a “second favorite”. I have several favorites, each of which hold a special place in my heart, but I wouldn’t be able to rank them.

2. Any lesser known shows/manga/anime/books everybody needs to know about?

GHOST HUNT AND NURARIHYON NO MAGO.

Ghost Hunt has to be my favorite supernatural horror anime ever, bar maybe Tokyo Ghoul. It follows the story of Taniyama Mai as she becomes the assistant to Shibuya “Naru the Narcissist” Kazuya, young psychic researcher and professional Ghost Hunter. They, along with a wacky cast consisting of a medium, a pritest, a preistess, a monk, and an omnyouji, solve a variety of different cases of the supernatural. It’s an awesome show, and the amount of research the author of the novels put into everything is crazy. Most of the show is accurate to real life psychic research, which is something that really impresses me. It’s not afraid to touch on issues that other shows wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole, either. All in all, I highly recommend it, and send you off to watch (or read!) it, with a warning to stay away from the dub. Mai’s voice in the dub is really annoying.

Nurarihyon no Mago is another really awesome one that I really wish people would watch. It follows the story of Nura Rikuo, the mostly human grandson of the yokai Nurarihyon, and heir to Nurarihyon’s clan, the largest yokai yakuza in all of Japan. The issue? Rikuo wants nothing to do with his yokai blood, preferring to stick to the human side of things. Through a series of events, Rikuo learns to accept who and what he is. It’s an awesome series with lots of references to japanese folklore and traditions, and I wholeheartedly recommend that you read it as soon as you can.

3. Ghibli or Disney?

Ghibli all the way.

4. Why Ghibli/Disney?

I’ve always loved the way that Ghibli animates things. Their movies are always so beautiful to see, it’s like watching a work of art in motion. But more than that, the type of story they animate appeals to me more than Disney. I would much rather watch a movie about a young hat maker cursed into being an old woman fall in love with a wizard than watch a movie about a princess. Disney movies are great, I’m not going to deny that, but they’ve always been aimed more at a younger audience, which makes them awkward to watch now that I’m older. Ghibli movies have never had that stigma for me, and since their stories are the ones I tend to like more... Well. There’s not much more to say, is there?

5. Favorite flower?

I don’t have one? I don’t really have favorites with that sort of thing, but if I really had to pick, the I’d say chrysanthemum.

6. What makes you ship something?

Ohhh that’s a difficult question to answer. I ship different things for different reasons, usually becuase someone made me see that their dynamic works in a relationship. I don’t ship that many things, actually, and there are only two ships I can think off of the top of my head that I ever had a moment where I went “Wow. Those two. I ship them.” Those ships were 1827 and TodoDeku.

I had a moment, when reading the manga for KHR, where I was reading that scene in the Shimon arc where Hibari was fighting Adel. Tsuna was asking Hibari why he was fighting so hard, for Tsuna, and Hibari’s response is what made me ship them. “It is because there is a sky that the clouds can float freely. And someday, I will bite even the sky itself.” It just... hit me. Tsuna gives Hibari a home. He gives Hibari a place to come back to and rest whenever Hibari gets tired or bored of wandering around. Tsuna doesn’t try to constrain HIbari, or try to tell him what to do. He respects Hibari and his boundaries, and that line-- I’m not sure how to explain it. It just clicked, and I’ve shipped them ever since.

TodoDeku was the second ship where I had a moment like that. Before the sports festival arc, I never really noticed Todoroki. He was just one of the background characters, and I wasn’t even able to remember his name half the time. I was too focused on other things to pay attention to him. Then the sports festival arc started, and he came to the forefront of things, and I learned more about his past, and that’s when I started liking him. I didn’t ship him with anyone, but I liked him. But then-- “It’s your power, isn’t it?” That line. That scene. With the flashbacks and the fire appearing and Endeavor in the background and Izuku’s expression and Todoroki’s reaction--All of it. It was glorious. And that is what made me ship TodoDeku. Even more so with the interactions they had after that--with Stain’s fight and everything else, I just--adkfgfksyfef.

I have other things I ship, too. I ship HashiMada because that’s the way they’re written, really. It’s an epic bromance that borders on romance, and it’s not hard to believe they could have been lovers. I ship KaneHide because they support each other and help each other and mean so much to each other. I doubt there are very many things they wouldn’t do for one another. I ship Rikuo and Kana. I ship Meliodas and Elizabeth. I ship Madoka and Homura. I ship Kaito and Shinichi The main theme in all this? I ship healthy ships. Ships where they build each other up and support one another and help each other overcome their fears. That doesn't mean I don’t have unhealthy ships too. I’ve shipped things for no other reason than the dynamic is fucked up, because those ships are real too, and sometimes I like indulging that dark part of me. But for the most part, the reason why I ship something is because it’s healthy.

7. Or WHO makes you ship things?

@blackkatmagic has made me ship things. They introduced me to the ship that is MadaTobi and I haven't been able to drag myself away from. @onceabluemoonwrites made me ship DinoXanxus. The author of “Stranger with a Gun” (I can’t for the life of me remember who that is) made me ship 8018.

8. Favorite book?

Difficult to say! I love the Harry Potter series, because that was pretty much my childhood. The Hobbit holds a special place in my heart because my dad used to read parts of it to me before I went to bed. I love the Dresden Files for it’s weird sense of humor. I love House of Many Ways, and the Anita Blake series has some really good books in it, too! I’m not sure which one I would call my favorite.

9. Most Annoying Sibling Award?

I have two siblings, a younger brother and a younger sister, and out of the both of them, I’d have to say my sister is the more annoying of the two. I get along fairly well with both of them, but my sister is the more outgoing of the two of them, and thus the more likely one to come annoy me. I still love them both, though.

10. Wooden floors vs. linoleum.

Wooden. More because it’s familiar than any other reason.

11. Who are you in the Cinnamon roll meme?

I’d be stuck somewhere between looks like a cinnamon roll but could actually kill you and looks like a cinnamon roll and is actually a cinnamon roll. I’m general a nice person but if you go after anyone I care about then no one will find the body.

I never know who to tag for these sorts of things.... Lets just say I tag anyone and everyone who sees this post. If you feel like doing it, just say I tagged you!

My questions:

1. Dogs, Cats, both, or neither?

2. What’s your favorite Pokemon?

3. You have two weeks until the end of the world. What do you do?

4. Who was the worst teacher you’ve ever had?

5. What was the most frustrating thing you’ve ever had to do?

6. If you had one wish, what would that wish be?

7. What’s your favorite movie?

8. What’s your least favorite game?

9. Flying or super strength?

10. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live?

11. What’s your plan for the Zombie Apocalypse?

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asfeedin · 5 years ago

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7 tips for improving your cat photography skills at home

This tutorial is part of the “No Place Like Home” Campaign. We’ve partnered with some of our Licensing contributors to create these “conscious living” tutorials and Quests to encourage you to pick up your camera, maybe learn a new skill, and continue to do what you love despite these difficult times.

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I take a lot of photos of pets. My favorite model is my cat Mimi, who’s equally photogenic and stubborn. It can be challenging to take photos of your cat, especially when the lighting isn’t ideal and you can’t go outside.

I know this is something that many cat owners struggle with—how do you take professional photos of your cat without ending up ignored or scratched? Is it possible to make your pet look flattering when you’re working with simple indoor lighting? The answer, of course, is yes!

I want to share a few simple but effective tips that can help you elevate your cat photography.

Catch the cat’s attention with their favorite toy, bed, or treats

You probably know your pet better than anyone else. Think of their quirks, likes, and dislikes. Where is their favorite place to sleep? When are they the least grumpy? The stranger the quirk, the more interesting your photos will turn out!

For example, my cat loves my guitar bag. She instantly runs up to me when I unzip it. No matter where I put it, she’ll jump in and get comfortable. This gives me room for a lot of beautiful photo opportunities.

Don’t force your cat to do anything. Create opportunities for them so they can forget that the camera is even there. If they’re in a natural and familiar environment, they will feel much more comfortable in the presence of a camera.

Use lasers or food to direct your cat’s gaze

Since pets can’t always be directed, it’s difficult to make them look straight at the camera. Again, this is where your expert pet knowledge comes in! Does your cat react positively to certain noises or movements? Use this to your advantage to naturally direct your cat’s gaze.

Try having someone point a cat-friendly laser pointer somewhere around your lens or even dangle a treat directly above the lens. (No matter what kind of laser you use, don’t point it at your cat’s eyes or body. Avoid reflective surfaces, too!)

Put their favorite bed next to a large window

My cat has several beds that she favors depending on the season. Yours probably has a favorite spot as well. If it’s a portable bed, move it closer to a window. This will give you lots of opportunities to take photos while your pet rests or sleeps.

Natural window light is perfect for soft pet portraits. If your pet faces the window, even better! You’ll be able to take advantage of natural highlights and shadows. Both of these look very flattering in both pet and portrait.

If your cat is jumpy, use a silent shutter

This is also a tip to keep in mind if your cat is resting or sleeping. If your camera isn’t intrusive, your pet is likely to have positive associations with it.

A silent shutter isn’t always an option. If yours is very loud, try shooting from a distance. You can use a zoom lens to give your cat some extra space.

Use a fast shutter speed and a high ISO for action photos

If your cat is active, you can take lots of eye-catching action photos of them on the move. You can play with them yourself or ask an assistant to do the work for you. Switch to a fast shutter speed so that every detail is sharp in your final results.

Let’s talk about ISO numbers for a second. The bigger they are, the more noise they add to your photos. Scary, right? Not really. Most of today’s cameras can process high ISO numbers without damaging the results. Avoid very high numbers, but don’t be afraid to move up sometimes.

A fast shutter speed and a high ISO will let you take sharp and well-lit photos indoors. Also, a large aperture (e.g. f/2.0) can also help you capture more light.

Use limited light to make your cat look extra adorable

Cats look unbelievably cute in the dark because of their dilated pupils. The less light there is, the more intense their eyes will look. If you surprise them with a treat during your photoshoot, they’ll basically look like Puss in Boots from Shrek.

Limited light isn’t as challenging as it sounds. As I mentioned previously, it’s okay to use an ISO number that’s higher than what you’re used to. Overcoming the fear of photo noise can help you take very, very adorable photos of your cat.

You can use simple artificial light to control the lighting in your photoshoot. A small lamp can make a big difference. Point it in different directions to see which angle makes your cat look the most flattering.

To catch your cat’s attention, give them a few treats or play with them.

Shoot for a few minutes at a time

Cat photography requires a lot of patience and understanding. If you notice your pet losing interest in your presence, put your camera away. I know this can be frustrating, especially if you’re about to get a great shot, but it’s a fantastic way to strengthen your patience.

Slowly introduce your camera to your pet. You can shoot every day, but make sure you limit your photoshoots to a maximum of 10-20 minutes. Even though my cat is still sassy and stubborn, she seems to enjoy being in front of the camera because I don’t intrude.

Last but not least, make sure you reward your pet at the end of your photoshoot!

Cat photography doesn’t have to be difficult and doesn’t have to end with painful scratches on your arms and face. If you approach it with curiosity and patience, you’re likely to get a lot of beautiful shots in the process.

Make sure you experiment with different lighting setups (no expensive equipment necessary), angles, and rewards. The more photos you take, the closer you’ll get to getting that incredible shot you’ve always dreamed of adding to your portfolio.

You might also like these articles: Everything You Need To Know About Taking Awesome Dog Photography Everything You need to know about Cat Photography 24 Beautiful Black and White Portraits That Will Win Your Heart

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7 Reasons Why Your Dog Is Acting Strange and Hiding

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Have you seen that your dog is appearing unusual and hiding?

Then you may be out of your thoughts with fear what’s inflicting this habits change in your dog.

Fortunately, I’m right here that will help you perceive why your dog is appearing bizarre.

Just carry on studying.

7 Reasons Why Your Dog is Acting Strange and Hiding

Whenever my dog’s habits modifications out of a sudden, it at all times makes me Google the signs or ask questions on dog’s dialogue boards.

I assume that you simply do the identical because you’re studying this.

I’ve some strong guesses about why your pet may be appearing unusual and hiding.

But you need to perceive that change in habits and hiding have many possible causes.

So, what I’m giving you might be instructions that will help you slender down what the issue is.

#1 Illness

The very first thing that involves my thoughts each time somebody says that their dog is appearing unusual and hiding is an sickness.

That’s as a result of dogs instinctively hide whenever they’re in pain to guard themselves from predators.

In addition to this, some canine don’t need to be round folks once they really feel unwell.

Instead, these canine desire to put someplace darkish and secure, for instance, below your mattress or within the closet.

Don’t freak out simply but in case your dog is appearing unusual and hiding. Observe your pooch.

If Rover is ailing, you’ll discover different well being warning indicators similar to lethargy, lack of urge for food, change in coat’s look, and fever.

In addition to this, while you’re a pet mother or father, you develop one thing like a maternal intuition. For instance, I at all times can inform that my pooch is feeling worse for the damage by the best way he strikes or appears to be like at me. So belief your guts.

#2 Fear of Fireworks

Another motive why your dog is appearing unusual and hiding are fireworks. Dogs are delicate to loud noises and vibrant, flashing lights.

Fireworks are usually not one thing that happens often in your dog’s life. It’s an occasion which occurs a few instances a 12 months.

It’s scary as a result of it’s unpredictable, and your dog doesn’t perceive what’s happening on the market.

As such, fireworks are likely to scare canine mindless, particularly if it’s your dog’s first publicity to illuminations.

It’s commonplace for a dog to spend the entire New Year’s Eve hiding below the mattress or the closet as soon as the festivities start.

The dangerous factor is that your dog may proceed to be terrified of loud noises for weeks or months after the preliminary occasion. As a end result, Rover may sprint to his hiding place each time one thing noisy is occurring in the home.

To ease your dog’s fears and assist them cope with fireworks, it’s best to shut all of the home windows and draw the curtains to dam the lights and the sounds.

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#3 Storm Phobias

Besides fireworks, canine typically have storm phobias. They don’t just like the sound of thunders or the brilliant flashes of lightning, so that they tempo, pant, whine, or cover throughout a thunderstorm.

Moreover, some canine may act unusual and cover impulsively as a result of they’re sensing an approaching storm. Such fearful habits may proceed for some time after the storm has handed.

During storms, it’s best to present your dog with a secure place to cover and be close to him to supply emotional assist.

Some specialists additionally counsel enjoying white noise or turning up the TV to drown the ranging storm.

#4 Traumatic Experience

Think in regards to the days earlier than your dog began appearing unusual and hiding. Did one thing occur that would have traumatized your dog?

For instance, a combat with one other dog throughout your every day stroll otherwise you unintentionally stepping on their tails.

Furthermore, typically canine unintentionally break one thing when they’re alone at dwelling. If they get harm within the course of, it may clarify your dog’s bizarre habits.

So something that would startle your dog badly could make your pooch fearful and prone to cover

In addition to this, canine typically cover each time they get reminded of a traumatic expertise or an abusive state of affairs from their previous.

Angry voices, tensions in the home, a specific scent, or a hand gesture may scare an abused dog simply.

Once you uncover what’s the set off, you may work on desensitizing your dog to the stimulus. Or be sure that your dog doesn’t get uncovered to them.

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#5 Anxiety and Stress

Another motive why your dog may be appearing unusual and hiding is anxiousness and stress.

Dogs don’t prefer it when issues change as a result of they don’t perceive what is occurring. It looks as if the tip of the world is coming, and the one logical resolution to your pet is to cover.

Not solely massive modifications stress canine. Some canine may get anxious since you’ve thrown away their favourite sofa or moved a chunk of furnishings.

You working late or lack of sufficient every day train may also make your pooch anxious.

To keep away from stressing your dog, it’s best to at all times introduce modifications slowly each time doable. In a number of circumstances of hysteria and stress, your pooch goes to want medicines to assist him settle down.

#6 Strangers

Not all canine are folks pleasant. Some are cautious of individuals due to earlier traumatic experiences or lack of correct socialization. Others are suspicious and alert by nature.

If your pooch will get nervous round different folks, having strangers in your home may clarify why your dog is appearing bizarre and hiding.

In these conditions, it’s higher to depart your pooch alone in the intervening time.

Work on socializing your grownup dog when Rover is calm, and you may management the state of affairs. Then you may invite your folks once more and enable Rover to get used to them.

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#7 Solitude

Finally, typically, canine act unusual and cover as a result of they need some peace and quiet.

Your furbaby may be uninterested in all the eye you’ve been giving him, or your kids may be getting an excessive amount of for Rover to deal with.

In these circumstances, your dog may search the consolation of a hiding place in order that he can have a nap with out somebody disturbing him.

A dog who’s appearing unusual and hiding will not be at all times a motive so that you can panic. Just like people, canine want area once they’re unhappy, apprehensive, or anxious.

However, hiding is also an indication of sickness, particularly if it continues for greater than a day or two.

So, you speak about it along with your vet in case you imagine that one thing isn’t proper along with your pet

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GGS, SWAYAS –”He who constantly keeps in mind Intent upon Ever Awake Living Light of Consciousness And never swerves from the thought of One God; And he who is adorned with full faith in Him And is wholly steeped in the Love of the Lord, And even by mistake never puts his faith in fasting Or in worship of tombs, sepulcher or crematoriums, Caring not for pilgrimages, alms, charities, Penances or austerities; Or anything else but devotion to One God; And in whose heart and soul the Divine Light Shines forth as the full moon He is known as Khalsa, the purest of the pure.”

GHULAM RASOOL PADROO –”How can I not recognise my son? I can recognize even his bone. Here, it is his entire body.”

GIACOMO CASANOVA –”The reader of these memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system… has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life.”

GIACOMO LEOPARDI –”No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets, less, than intolerance.”

GIL ATKINSON –”The great companies and teams are those that celebrate the differences. They seek harmony not uniformity. They hire talent not colon. They strive for oneness not sameness.”

GIL ATKINSON –”You are one of a kind; therefore, no one can really predict to what heists you might soar. Even you will not know until you spread your wings!”

GILBERT CHESTERTON –”Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.”

GILBERT K CHESTERTON –”It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.”

GILBERT K. CHESTERTON –” The way to love anything is to realise that it may be lost.”

GILBERT WHITE –”Floods are ‘acts of God’, but flood losses are acts of man.”

GILLIAN ANDERSON – “Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or coworker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.”

GINA HOSKINS –”Why me? When something bad happens, we often think the situation is unfair. Yet, if we were to really look at life, realizing the amazing calling we have been given to know the truth of God, we would humbly be asking the same question: Why me? It’s amazing; but God “saved us and called us with a holy calling”, not because of anything we’ve done, but because of “His own purpose and grace” (2 Timothy 1:8-9). We’ve done nothing to deserve it, yet He still chose us. Next time something bad happens that you think you don’t deserve… remember the many things you have to be thankful for. Count your blessings. Life is “unfair!”

GIOVANNI BATISTA FELICI –”Among the many disorders which the intemperance of mankind has introduced to shorten their lives, one of the greatest, in my opinion, is the use of chocolate.”

GIUSEPPE MAZZINI –”A country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which hinds together all the sons of that territory.”

GK CHESTERTON –”Happiness is a mystery like religion, and should never be rationalized.”

GK CHESTERTON –”The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. Unless a man starts on the strange assumption that he has never existed before, it is quite certain that he will never exist afterwards. Unless a man be born again, he shall by no means enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.”

GK CHESTERTON –”The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.”

GK CHESTERTON –”There are philosophies as varied as the flowers of the field, and some of them weeds and a few of them poisonous weeds. But they none of them create the psychological conditions in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower.”

GK CHESTERTON –”Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.”

GK CHESTERTON –”You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.”

GLADYS STAINES– “Because I have experienced forgiveness in my own life, it is possible for me to forgive others.”

GLADYS STAINES –”Experience forgiveness and forgive others. Grace is available. Once you forgive, there will be healing.”

GLADYS STAINES –”My prayer to the Lord is: Take me as I am. You know how precious stones become crystal clear? They go through polishing and hardship, and that’s how our lives should be… If we don’t experience the grace of God, we become bitter… Experience forgiveness and forgive others. Grace is available. Once you forgive, there will be healing.”

GLENWAY WESCOTT –”It is not love, but the lack of love, which is blind.”

GLORIA ALLRED –”The more I know about men, the more I like dogs.”

GLORIA STEINEM –”A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.”

GLORIA STEINEM –”Self-esteem isn’t everything; it’s just that there’s nothing without it.”

GLORIA STEINEM –”We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons. But few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.”

GM TREVELYAN –”Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.”

GOATHE– “Whatever you do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.”

GOETH –”Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.”

GOETHE –”A clever man commits no minor blunders.”

GOETHE –”Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.”

GOETHE –”Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”

GOETHE –”Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.”

GOETHE –”He who seizes the right moment, Is the right man.”

GOETHE –”If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.”

GOETHE –”It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.”

GOETHE –”It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.”

GOETHE –”Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.”

GOETHE –”Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing.”

GOETHE –”Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions of the beautiful and perfect, that every one should study, by all methods, to nourish in his mind the faculty of feeling these things… For this reason, one ought every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”

GOETHE –”Nothing is more revolting than the majority; for it consists of few vigorous predecessors of knaves who accommodate themselves, of weak people who assimilate themselves, and the mass that toddles after them without knowing in the least what it wants.”

GOETHE –”Nothing shows a man’s character more than what laughs at.”

GOETHE –”Only begin and then the mind grows heated; only begin and the task, will be completed.”

GOETHE –”Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life.”

GOETHE –”The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.”

GOETHE –”There are nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure; wealth enough to support your needs; strength enough to battle with difficulties and I forsake them; grace enough to confess your sins and overcome them; patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished; charity enough to see some good in your neighbour; love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; faith enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

GOETHE –”There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action.”

GOETHE –”Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.”

GOETHE –”We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.”

GOETHE –”Whatever liberates our spirit Without giving self-control is disastrous.”

GOETHE –”Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.”

GOETHE –”Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realise the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man’s life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.”

GOETHE, A.P. –”To get profit without risk, experience without dander, and reward without hard work is as impossible as it is to live without being born.”

GOETHE, FAUST –”No, no! The devil is an egotist, And is not apt, without why or wherefore, “For God’s sake”, others to assist.”

GOLDA MEIR –”Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard, there’s nothing you can do. You can’t stop the plane, you can’t stop the storm, and you can’t stop time. So one must accept it calmly wisely.”

GOLDA MEIR -“Whether women are better than men I cannot say—but I can say they are certainly no worse.”

GOLDAMEIR –”I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an under taking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.”

GOLDEN NASH –”One would be in less danger from the wiles of the stranger. If one’s own kin and kith where more fun to be with.”

GOLDSTONE, W.E. –”The resources of civilization against its enemies are not yet exhausted.”

GOOD OMENS –”God does not play dice with the universe. He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won’t tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.”

GOODMAN ACE –”I have discovered the secret formula/or a carefree old age: ICR – FL “If you can’t recall it. Forget It”.”

GORDON ALLPORT –”Love received and love given comprises the best form of therapy.”

GORDON BETHUNE –”Do you know how much faster I can fix an airplane when I want to fix it than when I don’t want to fix it?”

GORDON L GLEGG –”There it was. Instantly, I knew I had a planet beyond the orbit of Neptune because I knew the amount of shift was what fitted the situation and that was the most instantaneous thrill you can imagine. It just electrified me! I realized that I’d made a great discovery that I’d become famous, and I didn’t know what would happen after that. It was a very intense thrill. You don’t have that kind of a thrill very often. Clyde Tom Baugh, who discovered Planet Pluto in 1930 A scientist can discover a new star, but he cannot make one. He would have to ask an engineer to do that.”

GORE VIDAL– “Whenever a friend succeeds something in me dies.”

GREEK SAYING– ” Memory and oblivion, all hail! Memory for goodness, oblivion for evil.”

GOSPEL OF EVE –”I am thou, and thou art I; and whosesoever thoumayestbe I am there. In all am scattered, and whensoever thou wiliest, thou gatherest me; and gathering Me, thou gatherest Thyself.”

GOSPEL ST LUKE –”Jesus said to them, “No one puts new wine into old wineskins; if he does, the new wine will burst the skins and will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed. But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins. And no one after drinking old wine desires new; for he says, the old is good’.”

GOSPEL, ST JOHN –”In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

GOVINDAN KUTTY –”Vamana is Mahavishnu’s first incarnation in a human form. He was born in the mind of the rakshasa, Mahabali Chakravarti, who, despite being a rakshasa, believed in truth and charity That’s why Mahabali readies himself to sacrifice everything. He not only gave away to Vamana all the three worlds, he allowed Vamana to place his foot on his head, thereby making the supreme sacrifice of giving up his own ego. The three worlds stand for the three planes of consciousness, the waking, dreaming and deep-sleep states. Vamana, by placing his foot on the king’s head in a symbolic gesture, transcended not only these three planes of consciousness, but also dethroned King Bali or the egocentric existence… Onam is celebrated to commemorate this realisation.”

GRACE E EASLEY –”There is a happiness in me Which lives in spite of all The days of pain and misery That sometimes I recall. A little joy whose roots are deep, And keep on holding-on, And even though the times I weep, …Are solid as a stone. There is a happiness in me That’s near to having wings, And I’m convinced it’s sure to be Each time my Angel sings. Sometimes I feel it’s not enough, This meagre bit I give, And that this life so cold and rough, …Is not where I should live. I hunger for a different kind Of place than I have been, Not comprehended by the mind, With not a single sin To mar its pure perfection, Detract from all it is, And so in that direction,My feet must follow His. Because this happiness in me Was planted long ago, To shield me from things to be, While I remain below, God cut my earth-bond moorings, And granted I should be Attuned to Heaven’s voices, through …This happiness in me.”

GRACE HANSEN –”A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers.”

GRACE HOPPER –”A ship in port is safe, but this is not what ships are built for.”

GRACE LICHTENSTEIN –”Your opponent, in the end, is never really the player on the other side of the net, or the swimmer in the next lane, or the team on the other side of the field, or even the bar you must high-jump. Your opponent is yourself, your negative internal voices, your level of determination.”

GRACE MCGARVIE –”Tradition is an explanation for acting without thinking.”

GRAEME EDWARDS –”It’s not the plan that is important, it’s the planning.”

GRAFFITI –”As a rule a man’s a fool; When it’s hot he wants it cool; When it’s cool he wants it hot. Always wanting what is not.”

GRAFFITI –”It doesn’t matter who you vote for, the government always gets in.”

GRAFFITI –”Well, we’ll have one more weekend ‘escape’ when soon, summer season at the North Pole is totally free of ice.”

GRAFFITI AT BROMLEY –”Join the army, meet interesting people, and kill them.”

GRAFFITO –”Man is preceded by forest, followed by desert.”

GRAHAM GREEN –”The world is not black and white. More like black and gray.”

GRAHAM GREEN –”There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and let the future in.”

GRAHAM GREENE –”I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect — it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior.”

GRAHAM LEE –”Tobacco is a dirty weed. I like it… It’s the worst darn stuff I’ve ever seen. I like it.”

GRANTLAND RICE –”When the one Great Scorer comes to mite against your name, He marks – you won or lost — – not that but how you played the game.”

GRANVILLE HICKS –”We need to learn to make a distinction between disapproval and censorship.”

GRATTAN –”At 20 years of age the WILL reigns; at 30 the WIT; at 40 the JUDGEMENT; afterwards the proportion of character.”

GREAT LEARNING –”The accumulation of wealth is the way to scatter the people, and the letting it be scattered among them is the way to collect the people.”

GREG CHAPPELL –”The better you think, the better your game will be… After all, cricket is a sport where you’ve got to find solutions for problems…”

GREG NORMAN –”It’s not the victories that count to me. It’s the quality of how you deliver your losses and the quality of how you deliver your victories.”

GREGORY NUNN –”IF YOU WANT TO SEE WHAT YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY THINK OF YOU, DIE BROKE, AND SEE WHO COMES TO YOUR FUNERAL.”

GRENVILLE KLESER –”Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate result of your life.”

GRETA GARBO –”There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.”

GRO HARLEM –”A cigarette is the only consumer product which when used as directed kills its consumers.”

GROUCH MARX –”Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.”

GROUCH MARX –”Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.”

GROUCH MARX -“Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped.”

GROUCH MARX –”Growing old is something you do if you’re lucky.”

GROUCH MARX –”Humility is a strange thing. The moment you think you’ve got it, you’ve lost it.”

GROUCH MARX –”I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read the newspaper.”

GROUCH MARX –”I have nothing but confidence in you, and very little of that.”

GROUCH MARX –”I never forget a face, but in your case I’ll be glad to make an exception.”

GROUCH MARX –”If they’d lower the taxes and get rid of the smog and clean up the traffic mess, I really believe I’d settle here until the next earthquake.”

GROUCH MARX –”If you’ve heard this story before, don’t stop me, because I’d like to hear it again.”

GROUCH MARX –”Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while…”

GROUCH MARX –”My mother loved children – she would have given anything if I had been one.”

GROUCH MARX –”Only one man in a thousand is a leader of man-the other 999 follow women.”

GROUCH MARX –”Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside a dog, it’s too dark to read.”

GROUCH MARX –”The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.”

GROUCH MARX –”Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well I have others.”

GROUCH MARX –”What do you get when you cross an insomniac, an agnostic, and a dyslexic? Someone who stays up all night wondering if there is a Dog.”

GROUCH MARX –”Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, and I’m going to be happy in it.”

grouchomarx –”I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.”

GU BAILIE –”Violence is shrouded in justifying myths that lend it moral legitimacy, and these myths for the most part kept people from recognising the violence for what it was.”

GURUNANAK –”We are human being neither Hindus nor Mussalmans. We are bodies and souls of the Supreme Being; call Him Allah or call Him Ram.”

GUSIAV KRUPP –”We want only loyal workers who are grateful from the bottom of their hearts for the bread which we let them earn.”

GUSTAVO FLAUBERT –”Art has no other end, for people of feeling, than to conjure away the burden and the bitterness.”

GUSTAVO FLAUBERT –”I have demanded much and one very little.”

GUY FAWKES– “A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy.”

GW.CURTIS– “While we read history we make history.”

GWYN THOMAS –”Once you have heard of the lark, known the swish of feet through hill-top grass and smelt the earth made ready for the seed, you are never again going to be fully happy about the cities and towns that man carries like a crippling weight upon his back.”

GYPSY BOSE LEE –”Praying is like a rocking chair; it’ll give you something to do, but it won’t get you anywhere.”

H JACKSON –”Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.”

H JACKSON BROWN –”Strive for excellence not perfection.”

H L MENCKEN –”A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.”

H L MENCKEN –”The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.”

H L MENCKEN –”The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of the truth — that error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it has been cured of one error, is usually Simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.”

H P BLAVATSKY –”Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent winch is ever green.”

H P LOVECRAFT –”The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”

H STANLEY JUDD –”A good plan is like a road map: It shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.”

H W BEECHER –”Victories that are easy are cheap. Only those are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting… It is defeat that turns bone to flint, and gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible, and formed those heroic natures that are now in ascendancy in the world. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.”

H W LONGFELLOW –”I shot an arrow into the air,/ It fell to earth, I knew not where;/ For so swiftly it flew the sight/ Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air,/ It fell to earth, I knew not where;/ For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak/1 found the arrow, still unbroke;/ And the song, from beginning to end,/1 found again in the heart of a friend.”

H W LONGFELLOW –”If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”

H. H THE DALAI LAMA –”The compassionate mind is like an elixir; it is capable of transforming bad situations into beneficial ones.”

H. MANN –”If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.”

H. STANLEY JUDD –”You may be dead broke and thafs a reality, but in spirit you may be brimmmg over with optimism, joy and energy. The reality of your life may result from many outside factors, none ofwhich you ontrol. Your attitudes, however, reflect the ways in which you evaluate what is happening.”

H..D.THOREAU– “What a hero one can be without moving a finger!”

H.D. THOREAU– “Things do not change, we change.”

H.E. LUCCOCK –”N0 one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it.”

h.g.wells –”Adapt or perish, now as ever, is natures inexorable imperative.”

H.G.WELLS –”It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.”

H.G.WELLS –”You have… a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic and unreliable — but teach him, inoculate him with chess.”

H.JACKSON BROWN– “In trying to get our own way, we should remember that kisses are sweeter than whine.”

H.JACKSON BROWN Jr. –”Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.”

H.L. MENCKEN –”Youth, though it may lack knowledge, is certainly not devoid of intelligence; it sees through shams with sharp and terrible eyes.”

H.L.MENCKEN– “Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.”

H.L.MENCKEN –”It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.”

H.L.MENCKEN –”Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.”

H.L.MENCKEN –”No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes she were not.”

H.VAUGHAN –”If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.”

H.W.BEECHER –”A mother’s heart is a child’s schoolroom.”

HA WILLIAMS –”The joy which a man finds in his work and which transforms the tears and sweat of it into happiness and delight — that joy is God.”

HAITIAN PROVERB –”Beyond the mountains there are mountains again.”

HAKUIN –”If we really and truly understood what our true personal dignity is, we should at once spring to our feet and change our very hearts and minds. We should have compassion on the sick and poor. We should be merciful, honest and patient.”

HAL BORLAND –”Any river is really the summation of the whole valley To think of it as nothing but water is to ignore the greater part.”

HAL BORLAND –”You can’t be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.”

HAL-9000 –”I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.”

HALABELSON –”If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.”

HALFORD LUCCOCK –”An aggressive businessman told his doctor he was stressed with work. “I take my briefcase home every night and it’s packed with work,” he said with nervous inflection. “Cannot someone elsedo it or help you with it?” asked the doctor. “No”, the man snapped, “I am only one who can do it as it must be done, and it has to be done quickly”. The doctor’s prescription was: The patient was to take off two hours every working day and go for a long walk. He was to take off a half-day a week and spend that half-day in a cemetery In astonishment, the patient demanded, “Why should i spend a half-day in a cemetery?” “Because”, answered the doctor, “I want you to wander around and look at the gravestones of men who are there permanently I want you to meditate upon the fact that many of them are there because they thought even as you do, that the whole world rested on their shoulders. Meditate on the solemn fact that when you get there permanently, the world will go on just the same and, important as you are, others will be able to do the same work you are now doing”. The patient slowed his pace. He learned to delegate authority He stopped fuming and fretting. And it might be added, he now does better work.”

HAMARI SCOOTER –”Creative Expression No side mirrors to grieve about the past No rubber tyres to rush for a start No leather seats for kids to tear It’s the iron scooter that is so rare.”

HAMILTON MABIE –”Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.”

HAMILTON WEBB –”Man’s creation began as turbulence in a cloud of gas in infinite space and proceeded by condensation into a galaxy stars, planets, and finally the seas and continents of the earth… So man is the creature of the cosmos, not of the earth; the earth is only his womb, his chrysalis perhaps.”

HAMMAVADAKA –”Remember always that you are just a visitor here, a traveler passing through. Your stay is but short and the moment of your departure unknown.”

hand to translate. You find you run out of hands sometimes. But we love being up here. It’s beautiful looking back at the Earth. So good luck, DJ.”

HANK AARON –”My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.”

HANNAH ARENDT –”Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead to freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.”

HANNAH ARENDT –”Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.”

HANNAH ARENDT –”Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanely possible.”

HANNAH ARENDT –”The fearsome, word and thought-defying banality of evil.”

HANNAH ARENDT– “The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the days after the revolution.”

HANNAH ARENDT –”Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings … from within.The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted by degrees, by dint of constant pressure on one side and constant retreat on the other — until one day when they are suddenly declared to be the country’s official ideology.”

HANRIK IBSEN– “A community is like a ship. Everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.”

HANS CAROSSA –”Good idea is like mushroom where you find one you often find more.”

HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON –”Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.”

HANS CHRISTIAN ANIETEON –”Enjoy life. There’s plenty of time to be dead.”

HANS HOFFMAN –”The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of colour…”

HANS HOJFMAN –”The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of colour… this quality of colour should find expression in a work of art.”

HANS MARGOLIUS –”One man all by himself is nothing. Two people who belong together make a world.”

HANS MARGOLIUS –”Only in quite waters do things mirror themselves in distorted. Only in quite mind is adequate perception of the world.”

HANS TAEGAR -“Caring for others is great. Sometimes not caring can also be a kind of care.”

HANS TAEGER –”It may sound paradoxical, but I’m quite sure that hate and ignorance are the father and mother of enlightenment.”

HANS TAEGER –”There is nothing like dead matter or empty space. Every thing is full of light, energy, chug, spirit and intercommunication.”

HANUMAN CHALISA –”0 Hanuman, Ocean of Wisdom. Hail to you 0 Kapisa! (fountainhead Of power, wisdom and ShivaShakti). You illuminate all) the three worlds (entire cosmos) with your glory You are the divine messenger of Sri Ram. The repository of immeasurable strength, though known only as Son of Pavan (Wind god), born of Anjani. With Limbs as sturdy as Vajra, the mace of God Indra, you are valiant and brave. Oh you attends good sense and wisdom. You dispel the darkness of evil thoughts.”

HARDEV SINGH –”If a person has a strong urge for God-realisation, he will find a true master to bless him with God-knowledge.”

HARE, W.A. –”The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the men.”

HARINDRANATH CHATTOPADHYAYA –”Time like a hind in sore distress Travels on solitary ways across a-tangled with nights and days. Dappled and stained with nights and days. I see that hind, a-trembling, run Tracked without respite late and soon By the red bloodhound of the sun, The spotted leopard of the moon.”

HARK TWAIN –”The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it.”

HARLAN MILLER –”I wish we could put some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month. “

HARLES DE GAULLE– “Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.”

HAROLD JSEYMOUR –”When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow to the end and at all costs.”

HAROLD MACMILLAN –”I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.”

HAROLD PAUTER– “Cricket is probably the greatest thing god ever invented on earth, certainly better than sex, though sex isn’t to be sneezed at.”

HAROLD PINTER –”I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth.”

HAROLD PINTER –”I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth —certainly greater than sex, although sex isn’t too bad either.”

HAROLD STEVENS –”A worried person sees a problem, a concerned person solves it.”

HAROLD TAYLOR –”The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.”

HAROLD WHITMAN –”Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

HAROLD WILSON –”Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you’re scares to death.”

HAROLD WILSON –”The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.”

HAROLD WILSON –”We will negotiate not crawl.”

HARPER LEO –”Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE –”The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”

HARRIET MARTINEAU –”Readers are plentiful, thinkers are rare.”

HARRIET ROCHLIN –”Laughter can be more satisfying than honor; more precious than money; more heart-cleansing than prayer.”

HARRIET WOODS –”You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.”

HARROLD HILL –”You pile up enough tomorrows, and you’ll find you’ve collected a lot of empty yesterdays.”

HARRY E FOSDICK –”It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free.”

HARRY FOSDICK –”Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must ‘have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world – making the most of one’s best.”

HARRY GOLDEN –”The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.”

HARRY S. TRUMAN– “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”

HARVEY GUSHING –”A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man — he must view the man in his world.”

HATHA YOGA PRADIPIKD –”When the breath wanders the mind also is unsteady But when the breath is calmed the mind, too, will be still, arid the yogi achieves long life. Therefore, learn to control the breath.”

HAVELOCK ELLIS –”A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.”

HAVELOCK ELLIS –”The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.”

HAVELOCK ELLIS –”The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.”

HAVELOCK ELLIS –”When love is suppressed, Hate takes its place.”

HAVELOCK ELLIS–”The Promised Land always lies on the other side of the wilderness.”

HAZLITT –”Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.”

HAZLITT –”To be happy, m must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.”

HAZRAT ABU BABAJI –”The way to become a king is through servant hood—when you submit to be a slave of the beloved, you become the beloved.”

HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN –”The best thing is not to hate anyone, only to love… As soon as you have forgiven those whom you hate, you have gotten rid of them. Then you have no reason to hate them; you just forget.”

HAZRAT LNAYAT KHAN –”The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.”

HD THOREAU –”The language of friendship is not words; but meanings.”

HEANFEIT SONG –”Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men’s natural abilities as to restrain them.”

HEATH LEDGER –”I’m not good at future planning. I don’t plan at all. I don’t know what I’m doing tomorrow I don’t have a day planner and I don’t have a diary I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future.”

HEBREWS –”Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.”

HEBREWS –”Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”

HEBREWS-“Let brotherly love continue. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.”

HECTOR LOUIS BERLIOZ –”Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”

HEGEL, G.W.F. –”Nation and governments have ever learned anything from history.”

HEIKE MONOGATARI –”The knell of the bells at the Gion temple/ Echoes the impermanence of all things/the colour of the flowers on its double-trunked tree/ Reveals the truth that to flourish is to fall. / He who is proud is not so for, a passing dream on a night in spring.”

HEINE –”The Spring’s already at the gate With looks my care beguiling; The country round appeareth straight A flower-garden smiling.”

HEINRICH HEINE –”I called the devil, and he came,/ And with wonder his form did I closely scan;/ He is… really a handsome and charming man./ A man in the prime of life is the devil,/ Obliging, a man of the world, and civil;/ A diplomatist too, well skilled in debate,/ He talks quite glibly of church and state.”

HEINRICH KHUNRATH –”Sacred music causes flight to sadness and to the evil spirits because the spirit of Jehovah sings happily in a heart filled with holy joy.”

HEINZ R PAGELS –”There was emptiness more profound than the void between the stars, for which there was no here and there and before and after, and yet out of that void the entire plenum of existence sprang forth.”

HELEN HAYES –”What is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.”

HELEN HUNT JACKSON– “Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.”

HELEN KEELER –”Don’t think of today’s failure, but of the success that may come tomorrow.”

HELEN KELLER –”Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”

HELEN KELLER –”Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”

HELEN KELLER –”Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”

HELEN KELLER –”I can see, and that is why I can be so happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a man-made world.”

HELEN KELLER –”I have often been asked, “Do not people bore you?” I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of the stupid and curious… are always inopportune. I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. They are like people who, when walking with you, try to shorten their steps to suit yours; the hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating.”

HELEN KELLER –”I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest workers.”

HELEN KELLER –”I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.”

HELEN KELLER –”Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.”

HELEN KELLER –”Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.”

HELEN KELLER –”Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”

HELEN KELLER –”No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.”

HELEN KELLER –”Security is mostly a superstition… Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”

HELEN KELLER –”So much has been given to me; I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied.”

HELEN KELLER –”The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched… but are felt in the heart.”

HELEN KELLER –”The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.”

HELEN KELLER –”We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.”

HELEN KELLER –”We could never learn to be brave and patient if there was only joy in the world.”

HELEN KELLER –”When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long, so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.”

HELEN KELLER –”When one door of happiness closes another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”

HELEN KELLER –”When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.”

HELEN ROWLAND –”Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.”

HEMACHANDRA –”At any time, in any form and accepted name, if one is shorn of all attachment, that one is You alone. My Lord, You are One although variously appearing.”

HEMAN HESSE– “If you hate a person, you hate some thing in him that is a part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.”

HENE DESCARTES –”Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.”

HENIY BEECHER –”Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.”

HENK BEKEDAM –”It is very difficult to monitor the poultry in the backyards.”

HENNY TOUNGMAN –”When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.”

HENNY YOUNGMAN –”I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up- they have no holydays.”

HENRI BERGSON –”To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”

HENRI DE MONDEVILLE –”Anyone who believes that anything can be suited to everyone is a great fool, because medicine is practised not on mankind in general, but on every individual in particular.”

HENRI F AMIEL –”The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing playthings; he is less duped than his neighbour by his own nature. He judges more sanely, he sees things as they are. It is in this that his liberty consists, in the ability to see clearly and soberly in the power of mental record.”

HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL –”Kindness is gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us.”

HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL –”Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.”

HENRI MATISSE –” There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”

HENRI NOUWEN– “Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.”

HENRI POINCARE –”Thought is only a flash between two long nights but this flash is everything.”

HENRIK IBSEN –”Rob the average man of his life-illusion and you rob him also of his happiness.”

HENRIK IBSEN –”The majority is never right… Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools? I think we can agree it’s the fools, no matter where you go in this world, it’s the fools that form the overwhelming majority.”

HENRY A. OVERSTREET –”One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self centering to an understanding of relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both ability and a willingness to see himself as among others and to do unto those others as he would have them to him.”

HENRY ADAMS –”Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”

HENRY BEECHER –”Compassion will cure more sin than condemnation.”

HENRY BEECHER –”Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile, some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident, others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock.”

HENRY BOYLE –”The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people half-way.”

HENRY C LINK –”While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.”

HENRY CAHESTER –”Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money, power and influence.”

HENRY CATE –”The problem with political jokes is they get elected.”

HENRY D THOREAU – ‘I have learned this at last by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”

HENRY D THOREAU – “A man may esteem himself happy when that which is his food is also his medicine.”

HENRY D THOREAU – “Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent.”

HENRY D THOREAU – “To inherit property is not to be born … it is to be still-born, rather.”

HENRY D THOREAU – “What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.”

HENRY D THOREAU – “Why has every man a conscience, then? It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the low, so much as for the right.”

HENRY D THOREAU –”Any fool can make ‘a rule, and any fool will mind it.”

HENRY D THOREAU –”He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love.”

HENRY D THOREAU –”How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”

HENRY D THOREAU –”I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

HENRY D THOREAU –”If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.”

HENRY D THOREAU –”If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.”

HENRY D THOREAU –”If you built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.”

HENRY D THOREAU –”It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.”

HENRY D THOREAU –”It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.”

HENRY D THOREAU –”Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each… Some men think that they are not well in spring, or summer, or autumn, or winter; it is only because they are not well in them.”

HENRY D THOREAU –”Man have become the tool of their tools.”

HENRY D THOREAU –”Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science.”

HENRY D THOREAU –”Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives since they have not discovered any continuous employment for man’s nobler faculties.”

HENRY D THOREAU –”None are as old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.”

HENRY D THOREAU –”Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.”

HENRY D THOREAU –”Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”

HENRY D THOREAU –”The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit—not a fossil earth, but a living earth; compared with whose great central life all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic. Its throes will heave our exuviate from their graves …You may melt your I metals and cast them into the most beautiful moulds you can; they will never excite me like the forms which this molten earth flows out into.”

HENRY D THOREAU –”There is no odour so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.”

HENRY D THOREAU –”There is no remedy for love but to love more.”

HENRY D THOREAU –”True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.”

HENRY D THOREAU –”When it is time to die, let us not discover that we never lived.”

HENRY D THOREAU –”You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. ”

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